Unless anyone knows another reason for this impressive increase in comments? Seems to roughly coincide with Sync launching. If thats the case, just goes to show the importance of good third party apps.
Source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats
EDIT: Looks like a confusingly labeled graph and I think this is total comments. I have no idea why that spike could exist though.
Not surprising. Sync has made Lemmy a near-seamless change for me.
Yep. It’s like reddit never shat the bed and just spontaneously split into dozens of smaller sites.
Yeah, this.
I tried a bunch of apps when I moved over to Lemmy. Some were really good however Sync just felt like home. Instantly back to normal from a user experience perspective.
Sync was Reddit for me. So when Reddit decided to end all 3rd party apps, it was also the end of Reddit for me. Now with Sync for Lemmy it feels like I can pick off exactly where I left off and it feels great. Maybe even slightly better, because it feels like more people are interested in the comments you write and more of them interact with you.
Same, long time SyncPro user here (10 years), I stopped using reddit in June, I spent all my July on lemmy with PWA, Jerboa, Connect, etc, there was so much problems in the beginning with crash, network errors, etc. it was a jungle, dozens of new instances per day, etc. It is all stable now, I used Jerboa the most. First day Sync for Lemmy was out I installed it, it was like I never left the old site, same layout, colours, functionalities, gesture, etc. Sync for Lemmy is a saviour for sure. I didn’t want the subscribe, I bought the noads version the minute it was out.
Same except for Apollo on iOS.
Glad to be here. Everything feels less shill-y and spammy. No more 500 of the same shitty comments in every thread
- Username checks out
- This deserves more upvotes
- “This”
- Came here to say this
- Made an account just to say I agree
- Lost it at ______
- Sigh *unzips*
If I never see another goddamn unzip in my life I will die happy lmao
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This
I felt anger reading this. I think I just scrolled past it on reddit but lord almighty is it annoying
This is my experience as well. I haven’t found lemmy to be difficult to navigate on my computer, but on my phone it was a bit messy - but with sync back everything is as it was for me.
I just made an account to reply to this lol. I finally bit the bullet and started using Lemmy a few days ago, the community here is of course much smaller than reddit but I would describe the comments here as being like the 1 in 10 comments on reddit that actually made me want to keep using the site. You don’t see as many one word throw away pun comments here, which I’m not necessarily against but it gets very grating over time.
I just downloaded relay yesterday, I was always a RIF user but using relay in “sure drawer” mode is a pretty similar experience. Everyone here seems very chill and nice
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Haha I meant to say Sync
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Agreed wholeheartedly.
And like someone posted about we’re not constantly policing ourselves with /s because the folks here are adults. On reddit it had gotten so vitriolic I didn’t post often because someone was going to jump you for having a differing opinion or to express their faux outrage that you liked cheese on broccoli or whatever.
Let’s just hope everyone stays understanding and able to keep minor differences unfought. I hope the option of defederation helps in that regard.
I watched that happen today, but they were arguing that Tim Martin of Wetherspoons fame is a nice guy.
contributing to the statistics from sync here
See, I know what you’re saying when you refer to it as a third party app, but this isn’t reddit.
Sync is not a third party app because we don’t have any real parties to speak of. Sync is equal to Lemmy as any other client! That’s the beauty of decentralization!
You know I did actually question myself when I wrote that haha, but I went with it anyway.
I mean the definition could still probably apply though perhaps under the logic that the developer has nothing to do with the development of Lemmy. He is just a third party to it. The lack of a first party doesn’t change that Sync is a third party, maybe…
Not that it matters in the grand scheme of things.
I’m a simp for slick ux…
Sync definitely made me a regular on Lemmy
Same. And I started commenting in Sync since I kept getting errors when trying it in Jerboa.
It doesn’t work on Sync either. We don’t see your comments.
I still don’t know how this all works, but I’ll just keep blindly using it because I like Sync, and Laurence deserves our support.
You’ll catch on. It’s just like using Reddit, except each subreddit includes a web address in the name. Other than that, it’s mostly the same.
Its almost like having good third party apps can benefit a community! Who would have ever seen this coming! I sure didnt!
+1 from Infinity
I’m one of them. Never used lemmy because none of the available apps werent as sleek, stable, and functional as the reddit apps of old. But now sync is a great app so I use Lemmy a lot more.
it’s people arguing about whether or not they use sync
… honestly tho I wouldn’t be surprised, I’m using it a lot more now 🤷♂️
I’m surprised that sync had such a major impact. Still happy that it did.
It wasn’t because of Sync. The increase happened before Sync for Lemmy was even available. Notice how it jumped up and then didn’t rise again? Probably a dodgy instance federated.
What’s the best iOS client until someone can talk Christian into fixing Apollo for Lemmy?
Having PTSD flashbacks to waiting for my steam deck
Yup, created my account a month ago but found it a hassle to navigate on mobile, and actively started commenting the moment sync dropped
I would love to have the designer of RIF put their talents back in to making something that works out here free from the matrix.
They are working on an app for Tildes, another forum kind of website. It’s called Three Cheers for Tildes! Currently in alpha on android, iOS currently under development.
To put it bluntly, RIF is absolute garbage. The design is completely outdated and feels like a step backward from where we were even a few years ago
Yeah, but 2 million of those comments where “Yay, Sync!” and the other 2 million were “REEE, Sync!”
5 were compliments on cute pets.
But were they cute?
It doesn’t matter. Even ugly pets are cute.
Well, where are said pets?? You can’t just say that without links.
Tho Genghis is the real kind of cute.
I love that we can see downvotes because next time someone is mean to me I’ll just think ‘you’re probably the guy who downvoted that cute dog’ and their opinion will mean nothing to me.
Cute pet.
He’s super sweet. He looks kinda homeless right now because I’ve been doing maintenance trims until I can get him into his groomer for a spa day.
My goodness, that face!
Same face, more dorito ear.
He manages to always look hungry and pathetic.
That’s a damn cute dog right there!
Yeah lot of talking about using sync vs foss. I think that giving people more options is good for lemmy as a whole at the end of the day.
